By Madeline Renbarger,Eric Newcomer
Publication Date: 2026-11-06 19:26:00
We’re just under a week out from the Cerebral Valley AI Summit, and we’ve added five more rockstar speakers to our onstage lineup.
Aravind Srinivas, founder & CEO of Perplexity
Benjamin Spector, founder & CEO of Flapping Airplanes
Qasar Younis, founder & CEO of Applied Intuition
Guillermo Rauch, founder & CEO of Vercel
Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst
All five speakers are joining a stacked lineup that already includes Ali Ghodsi of Databricks, Nikesh Arora of Palo Alto Networks, Igor Babuschkin of River AI, Lin Qiao of Fireworks, Brendan Foody of Mercor, and more.
Byron Deeter and Talia Goldberg of Bessemer Venture Partners will be revealing the AI 100 — a list of the top private AI juggernauts — onstage at Cerebral Valley.
The summit is almost sold out, and spots are extremely limited. Apply ASAP for a last-minute chance to secure a seat.
Tickets are $1,299. Founder tickets are $199. Professional Services and Business Development tickets are $2,999.
We’d gotten to know the Fireworks team at a few of our summits over the years and are thrilled to have them as a presenting sponsor. Their specialized AI platform has built them into one of the top inference providers in the sector. CEO Lin Qiao will be speaking live onstage next Thursday.
Our other presenting sponsor, Oracle, has been with us from the very beginning —they were one of our earliest sponsors and supporters of the first Cerebral Valley AI Summit in early 2023. They knew where things…
